Siberian Unicorn

Did you know that there was once a real unicorn on the Earth?  It was not much like the fun ones you are used to seeing.  It was nearly as large as a woolly mammoth and looked more like a cross between a wooly rhino and a horse.  The large horn WAS coming out of the forehead, like the legendary unicorns we are used to seeing drawn.  However, this Siberian Unicorn was built much heavier than most  horses.  It was 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) tall and 15 3/4 feet (4.5 meters) long!  In fact, it weighed around 1 ton!

If you looked at a Clydesdale horse and imagined it with a unicorn horn, that would be the size of the Siberian Unicorn.  In fact, Poe, a Clydesdale in Texas is the largest horse in the world and he is 10 feet tall!  He weighs 1 1/2 tons.  That would make him BIGGER than the biggest known Siberian Unicorn!

It was once thought that the Siberian Unicorn went extinct 350,000 years ago.  A recent discovery has shown that they lived up to 29,000 years ago.  That means ancient Man may have lived around it, avoided it, or maybe even hunted it.

The scientific name for the Siberian Unicorn is: Elasmotherium sibiricum.

Siberian Unicorn

A Unicorn imagined from a Clydesdale Horse